write a 5-6 page review, including a detailed and insightful

write a 5-6 page review, including a detailed and insightful

write a 5-6 page review, including a detailed and insightful discussion that includes the following: The movie chosen : 50 first dates

  1. Give the title of movie, a short summary of the movie’s plot and main characters.
  2. Provide a summary of the disorder portrayed in this film and describe the character in the movie with that disorder.
    1. Indicate which DSM criteria were and were not portrayed in the film. Were there other disorders that might be diagnosed? Which ones and why?
    2. Were any causes of the disorder suggested in the film? If so, what? If not, what do you think best explains the causes of their disorder?
    3. What types of treatment, if any, did the person in this film receive? Provide specific examples.
    4. Is this form of treatment typical? Was it effective?
    5. If they received no treatment, what do you think they would have benefited from?
  3. Analyze the portrayal of the disorder by the character in the movie.
    1. Was the disorder portrayed accurately? Explain.
    2. Were the problems portrayed by the character true to the disorder? Explain with examples from the movie.
    3. Were the reactions of the other actors to the character realistic/authentic? Provide examples.
    4. Would you recommend it to others wanting to learn about the disorder? Why/why not?
    its called 50 first dates with Adam Sandler

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The film is about Henry Roth, a veteran who falls in love with a woman with nightly memory loss in Hawaii. Henry is a womanizer who goes to the bar every night to look for someone to spend the night with, without any emotional connection. He meets Lucy, an ex-art teacher, one morning at a restaurant where he had gone to take breakfast (Peter, 2004). During the conversations, Henry discovers that Lucy has a short-term memory due to her head trauma from a tragic accident. Each day Lucy wakes up thinking it is on a Sunday, her father’s birthday, the day she got an accident. Henry falls in love with Lucy and spends each day with her, hoping she will fall in love with him. Her father (Blake Clark) and brother

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